Lara Tupper, MFA, is the author of Off Island, a novel, A Thousand and One Nights, a novel, and Amphibians, a linked short story collection forthcoming in 2021. Her short fiction was runner up for the 2019 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature; her prose has appeared in The Believer, Nowhere Magazine, Dogwood Journal, Epiphany Magazine, and other literary publications. Lara taught creative writing at Rutgers University for many years and now teaches, writes, and sings in the Berkshires, Massachusetts. A jazz/pop performer who has traveled around the world, her latest album is This Dance.

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